Haifa Almakhdhoub

After KAUST Academy

Haifa works at Tahakom. Haifa earned a bachelor's degree in computer science from King Saud University with first class honors and a 4.98 GPA, and earned the Alibaba Cloud Computing Engineer certification at Tuwaiq Academy in November 2025.

Summer project

Artificial Intelligence Specialization · Cohort 2025

Moraqeb: A Distilled VLM on Surveillance VQA

Distilling and fine tuning a VLM to achieve SoTA metrics on certain benchmark datasets in the area of surveillance VQA

Mentor: Tanveer Hussain

Read the final report (PDF)

See it in the program report (PDF)

With KAUST Academy

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